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review YouNovember 9, 2008 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am suggesting to use more serious images. Take off the dwarf from the images.
Simple and fun to readOctober 26, 2008 Easy and fun to read with a good-size text. The information presented is very useful and more detail can be found on the author's detailed website. The book also lays very flat for easy reading while walking on my treadmill.
The Very Best to a Healthy Life!!!October 19, 2008 As noted I love anything Dr. Oz has to say. As a doctor's daughter, I relay on these books and find them a great read. He and his partner have truly made me look forward to a healthy long life ahead. I only wish my dad could have benefitted from their wisdom and his heart disease could have been curred.
Simple & easy guide to your body - it is not just for dummies, good for even the most "well read folks"October 17, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There is so much information about our body, diseases & fitness on the internet that most of us would think that we do not need to read another book on our bodies, hmm, well think of it again - do you really understand what and how does our arteries get clogged, what might cause cancer, or did you know that exercising more could actually do more harm ...
I used to think that I am well read about my body, not until I read this book - some of the most common ailments and body functions are so well explained with diagrams that you will never get this information on the internet - not on wikipedia, not on webmd - you may find lots of information, but not in a way in which we can understand.
The book may seem silly at times, grouse at times, but a very informative and helpful book if you are planning to be live a healthy life on this planet for a couple of years/decades to come.
How did this book help me: - Understood more about heart diseases & cancer - Importance of flavinoids in our diet - Importance of drinking good amount of water for many common ailments - Controlling stress is a more important than anything else and cannot be stressed enough - Exercising more can be bad (limit to 30 mins per day) - alternate between cardio, stretches & weights - Importance of deep breathing - Free weights are better than machines
& lots more
Good Information Buried in a Sea of JokesSeptember 27, 2008 7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I'm having a very hard time with this book. I've started and stopped reading it about dozen times already in the past 2 weeks. My problem? There is a lot of good information in here (really!) but it gets lost in the constant barrage of sarcasm and jokes inserted by the authors to (apparently) make it "entertaining". For me, the sheer number of jokes starts out as annoying, and finally becomes so distracting that I usually have to put the book down after about 20 minutes.
Here's an example of what I'm talking about from page 176 under a heading of "Mouth":
"The food-consumption process starts right here--in your body's food processor. Though opera singers, politicians, and courtside fans are known mostly for what comes out of their mouths, what makes our mouths so special is how we handle what goes into them. For starters, consider you mouth to be like the guy who buckles you in on a Ferris wheel--it's there simply to prepare the food for the journey."
The paragraph then goes on to describe crocodile teeth and elephant teeth, but I'm so distracted with thoughts of "what do opera singers and Ferris wheels have to do with MY mouth?" that I'm no longer learning, I'm ruminating on low ratio of information-to-jokes in the text. (Out of the 7 sentences in that paragraph, I felt the relevant information could have been boiled down to 2.)
Like I said, the book has a LOT of good information. If you are someone who can filter out all of the "noise", you'll get a lot out of it. However, if you're like me, and find all the sidebars distracting, it's a grind.
